Risks, opportunities, costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation
This research area will synthesise the outputs of the other research areas and analyse risks, opportunities, costs and benefits of different options, in order to develop solutions based on the concept of Integrated Climate Governance. This aims to make full use of all the available information in order to maximise the synergies and minimise the trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, and between different sectors and geographical regions.
Objectives:
- To evaluate modelling tools and methods for identifying and analysing costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation pathways to determine which methods are appropriate for analysing high-end scenarios;
- To develop and apply new complexity economics-based methods, in particular agent-based modelling, to support the analysis of costs and benefits, and economy-wide implications, of adaptation and mitigation pathways under high-end scenarios taking into account multiple feedbacks and dynamics;
- To assess the social-ecological robustness of current policies and strategies within the case studies to high-end climate scenarios;
- To identify the requirements to support Integrated Climate Governance under high-end scenarios through an analysis of the synergies and trade-offs between the adaptation and mitigation pathways; and,
- To organise a stakeholder workshop in each of the case studies to integrate and validate knowledge about the risks and vulnerabilities, synergies and trade-offs, and opportunities, costs and benefits of alternative mitigation and adaptation pathways and co-produce transformative strategies in response to high-end scenarios.
Further information on each research area is provided through the following links:
Innovative and effective decision-making under uncertainty
Development of integrated multi-scale scenarios
Advancement of climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability (CCIAV) methods and models
Development of adaptation and mitigation pathways
Risks, opportunities, costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation